. The last payment from them was just €1.05. Now maybe they don’t like us, but The Stunning have a huge fan-base in Limerick...Many great stations do, he said, adding Live95 FM is part of the UK’s Wireless Group, along with several Irish stations including Cork’s 96FM, FM104, LMFM. “None of them appear in my royalty statements so our music must be the wrong fit . . .
A radio insider backs this up, from the other side: “Commercial stations mostly play pop during the day, and many Irish bands don’t fit the genre. Radio supports acts well in pop genres, but there isn’t as much interest in trad, rock or indie music on radio any more.” Has it got worse? Just tune into any radio station, says Troy, who works across labels, management and activism. Wall posted a January 2021 Irish airplay chart, saying “the major labels represent 95.5 per cent of it. Independent releases represent just 4.5 per cent.”
Troy echoes this, drawing a distinction between DJs and radio presenters, with the former hired for their music expertise and the latter for their personalities. “We’ve lost the DJ, no one is fighting for music.” So “the same 10 or 15 Irish artists can get all the airplay.” A number of people make the point BAI rules on playing Irish music have not been updated in decades. Irish Association of Songwriters, Composers & Authors , which Troy and Keith Donald initiated, called for a uniform definition of Irish music for broadcasting , saying it would increase new Irish music on all radio stations fairly. Even the radio insider suggests a quota of independent artists rather than Irish music generally, would be effective.
Irish Radio is advertising, with music as an add on. Instead of the opposite
There's lots of Irish music on Raidió na Gaeltachta.